Quotes for All
Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead. Aphra Behn
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them. Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it’s not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency. Alison Jackson
The Adlerians, in the name of individual psychology, take the side of society against the individual. … Adler’s later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. Our science … is based on common sense. Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest … Read more
Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct, that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue? Alexander Hamilton
Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth. Albert Pike
The need for sociability induce man to be in touch with his fellow men. However, this need might not (ne saurait, Fr.) find its full (or complete) satisfaction in the conventional (or superficial, – conventionnel, Fr.) and deceitful world, in which (or where) everyone is mainly (or mostly) trying to assert oneself in front of … Read more
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Aesop
Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate – namely, that theory that all men are created equal. Adolf Hitler
Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing.
Ron Paul